The Fortnite season 5 battle pass is here, and though many predicted it was going to be a historical theme, so far the most major time period featured is none other than Vikings. There’s a new Viking village near Snobby Shores, complete with a boat sitting on a waterfall. There’s a Viking female warrior skin in the battle pass, and a male Viking and Viking axes leaked as store cosmetics.

And our Tier 100 skin for this season? It’s also a Viking.

That would be “Ragnarok,” who is essentially the new Omega of season 5, the reward for reaching tier 100 in the battle pass. He’s a blue-bearded Viking that may remind you of a certain god-slaying PlayStation character to a certain extent, but he’s different enough where I don’t think anyone is getting sued.

Like Omega, both Ragnarok and the Tier 1 skin, Rift, are progressive skins, meaning you can unlock more things for them as the season progresses, once you have them. But there are some important differences this time around.

Unlike last time, where you were assembling a suit of armor for Carbide and Omega, there aren’t really specific “pieces” this time around. Rather, the entire skin more or less just “levels up” for the most part. Ragnarok adds more armor in time, and also grows out his beard, ultimate putting a skull mask over it.

Also different this time is that progression challenges are not bound by season, but rather overall XP markers that you can hit at any time, which should reduce some of the frantic, end-season grind that players were not happy with.

So, how does Ragnarok progress once you start leveling him?

Stage 1 – His basic form

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Stage 2 – Unlocked at 35,000 XP, where he grows a bit of hair and puts on some armor

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Stage 3 – Unlocked at 75,000 XP, where his beard is starting to really come in

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Stage 4 – Unlocked at 125,000 XP, where he’s got a full armor set and a cape now

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Stage 5 – Unlocked at 250,000 XP, where he dons his scary skull mask

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Stage 6 – Unlocked at 500,000 XP, where he gets a tiny bit more bone armor and starts to glow

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I can’t remember how much XP it took to get to different levels last time, so it’s possible this may actually take more time to unlock the full variant of Ragnarok, because you can now do it over your entire Fortnite career, now that you’re not racing to get it in before the season ends.

For comparison, you can unlock all six stages of Drift’s skin by hitting 200,000 XP, which turns him into some sort of Japanese cat wizard, so it’s Ragnarok that is Fortnite’s new true “endgame challenge” as players try to rack up a huge amount of lifetime XP.

I like this idea, and I think this works better than the Carbide and Omega skins because with those, you sort of needed the entire set, or else it would look goofy with missing arm or leg or chest pieces. Here, each of these six phases are still complete skins in and of themselves, it’s just that they get increasingly badass as time goes on and you sink more XP into them. That rules. I wish Epic did this with more than just two skins a season, but perhaps this can be expanded upon in the future.